Lectures on the string landscape and the Swampland

NB Agmon, A Bedroya, MJ Kang, C Vafa - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06187, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide an overview of the string landscape and the Swampland program. Our review of
the string landscape covers the worldsheet and spacetime perspectives, including vacua …

Superbranes and superembeddings

D Sorokin - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
We review a geometrical approach to the description of the dynamics of superparticles,
superstrings and, in general, of super-p-branes, Dirichlet branes and the M5-brane, which is …

M-theory from its superalgebra

PK Townsend - Strings, branes and dualities, 1999 - Springer
About twenty years ago, it was pointed out that D= l1 is the maximum dimension in which
one can expect to find an interacting supersymmetric field theory [11. Its existence, and …

Testing AdS6/CFT5 in Type IIB with stringy operators

O Bergman, D Rodriguez-Gomez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We provide further evidence that the recently constructed warped AdS 6 solutions
in Type IIB supergravity are dual to 5d SCFTs that correspond to (p, q) 5-brane webs with …

Tensorial central charges and new superparticle models with fundamental spinor coordinates

I Bandos, J Lukierski - Modern Physics Letters A, 1999 - World Scientific
We consider firstly simple D= 4 superalgebra with six real tensorial central charges Zμν, and
discuss its possible realizations in massive and massless cases. Massless case is …

Massive branes

E Bergshoeff, Y Lozano, T Ortin - Nuclear Physics B, 1998 - Elsevier
We investigate the effective world-volume theories of branes in a background given by (the
bosonic sector of) 10-dimensional massive IIA supergravity (“massive branes”) and their M …

From superstrings to M theory

JH Schwarz - Physics Reports, 1999 - Elsevier
In the strong coupling limit Type IIA superstring theory develops an 11th dimension that is
not apparent in perturbation theory. This suggests the existence of a consistent 11D …

Branched SL (2, ℤ) duality

EA Bergshoeff, KT Grosvenor, J Lahnsteiner… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We investigate how SL (2, ℤ) duality is realized in nonrelativistic type IIB
superstring theory, which is a self-contained corner of relativistic string theory. Within this …

Novel supermultiplets of SU (2, 2| 4) and the AdS5/CFT4 duality

M Günaydin, D Minis, M Zagermann - Nuclear Physics B, 1999 - Elsevier
We continue our study of the unitary supermultiplets of the N= 8 d= 5 anti-de Sitter (AdS5)
superalgebra SU (2, 2| 4), which is the symmetry algebra of type IIB superstring theory on …

SL (2, ℝ)-invariant IIB brane actions

EA Bergshoeff, M de Roo, SF Kerstan… - Journal of High …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We give a universal SL (2, Bbb R)-invariant expression for all IIB p-brane actions with p=− 1,
1, 3, 5, 7, 9. The Wess-Zumino terms in the brane actions are determined by requiring (i) …